Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SHab tIle cOnIeSbNTSf cOuiU mol pOesiUl1 nave
mad anything to do with the crimes.
UNCLE TOMMY SrERETr, OF Hamilton. o.,
who has just celebrated his 18th birthday, is
now living happily with his nth wife. Bv his
/ first W fe he had Is children. by his second !,
! By the third 5. and by the fifth l, making JUST
| 20 IN all.
THREE CHILDREN near Emsley. Mimi,
| started to go home from school on Thursday
night. They got lost on the prairie, wandered
| around for severa hours, and when they were
| found on Friday night one was dead and the
! others fatally frozen.
BALLARD COUNTY bids fair TO be the banner
| county OF kentucky, for there were recently
! born there in one week. to the wife of Patrick
| Clark, three seven pound boys; to the wife,
OF IoDe Elliott, three vigorous children, and
| TO the wife of James Lawrence, fine twins.
In 1868 William Cooper, of Yell county,
Ark enlisted in the Southern army. In 1868
ne was captured and sent. to Illinois. He es-
capped and went back to Yell county, bat
cou not lind his wife. Then ne became
tramp until a few days ago, when he found
his wife at Shiloh. ARK. She had married
ana buried two husbands, and separated from
third, and was mighty glad to see Will
liam.
1 ALE FRESHMEN, anxious to have their
class flag splayed on the stage OF the New
Haven Opera House, aud thus excite the soph-
ignores, tried to hire the manager of the
performance to display it bv buying 200 front
seats. He refused. Then one of them en-
gagged as "supe," and wnen in the course OF
the performance boat crossed the stage he
managed &c fasten the nag to the boat, ana 1t
was visible for some ten minutes, while me
| freshmen cheered and the sophomores Kissed.
BoYCoTTING and outcastng are made
| doubly oppressive to Hindoo women, and for
| the most trifiing reasons. A married woman
| not putting the sindoor IA red pOwder) on the
! parting OF her hair is boycotted. In the conn
| try, If a mother-in- aw eats or lives in the
| house of her son-in-law before ner daughter
has a child she will be at once bOycotted.
| young married lady was boycotted for not
! observing some ceremony at the birth of her
| child. man can regain his caste by per-
| forming the eXpiatory rites, but oItcast
woman, especially If she las broken away
| from the zenana or associated with non Hin
| docs, is never taken back TO her caste.
| AT the time of the recent strike of the to-
| baccO workers in P. Lorill ard Il Co.'s factory
In Jersey City there were TWO pet cats in the
| factory which were insPparable. One of
| them went out with the STR ers. but the other
| remained in the factory, and when the strike
| was over the striking cat went back with the
| hands. Itrefused, however, 10 associate with
| the faithful cat. The TWO met by accident
| few days ago. on one of the floors of the
! factory, and the cat that went out pitched
| into the other cat and thrashed it. Now the
| victor ous cat travels about the factory with
| a red, white ana blue ribbon around its neck,
placed there by the Knights of Labor ad-
| mirers.
| THE destinations of the social life of the
| American capital also threaten to supplant
! the monopoly in that line hitherto enjoyed by
the capitals OF Europe, particularly Paris,
! Vienna and Rome. some of the most promi-
| nent acquisitions to the social list of the past
| season were the gentlemen OF wealth who
! were in the habit Of taking their families to
| Europe for the winter gayeties. Their ladies
| have been captlvated By the pleasures of the
| season. Hereafter. instead OF facing the dan
| gers and discOmforts Of Sea voyage, Wash
| Dgton Will be their winter home. The
| American capital will soon be the resort OF
| all Americans who desire q pleasant season
| OF rational social gayety.
| EIGHTEEN hundred and eighty seven is the
fftieth anniversary of the following events:
| President Van Buren, takes Office, March 4:
| Victoria becomes Queen, June 70; Evans
storms Irun. May II: Espartero tat es Her
mani, May Is; CarlIst defeat at Valencia. July
| Is: Imperial Parliament dissolved. July II;
| cholera in Europe, Julv-August; Carlist VIC
| tory at Herrera. Aug. "a; Saldanha and Ter
| rera defeated. Sept. Is: French Chamber of
| Deputies dissolved, Oct. 4; French storm
Constantine, Oct. ID; Persians besiege Herat,
| Nov. -; Winter palace at st. Petersburg
| burned. Dec. 80; Father Mathews tenn
| perance mission began; publication of ''PIck-
| wick Papers" and OF Carlyle's "Frech Reyo-
| LUTON"
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are expert, and jewelry is by no means the
| exclusive luxury of the rich. In the first
| place it is cheap. The most skillful jewelers.
| are glad to work for two shillings a day and
| the profit they can make on the very small
| amount of solder they are permitted to use.
| The Persian seldom buys his jewelry ready
| made-he orders it. Nhen the various pieces
| have been cast or cut out from metal supplied
| by the customer. they are brought to him for
| inspection and carefully weighed. Then the
| article is put together, either in the custom
| er's own house and under his eye, or under
| the supervision of his servant. Then it is
again weighed. then chased and finished the
| filings and waste being collected and credited
| to the customer.
On May 81, 1898, Marguerite Bogenval, of
Origny, France, went to sleep and has not
| wakered since. nor 80 much as stirred a
| finger She has been kept alive by the ad-
ministration Of milk and highly concentrated
beef tea. Despite the most careful attentions
| of those wa1ching her she is row emacaled
| to an extreme degree and her bones are
piercing her skin. She lies peri city Ill and
| rigid, her eyes closed and her teetf set fast
| together. A popularity of the case is that in
| raising one eyeiid ana allowing the light to
| fall upon the eye shudder is noticed. FOL
| lowed by an immediate lowering of the eye
lid, or an attempt to do so. Marguerite's res
| piration ia perfectly normal in its regularity
ana her pulse though feeble 10 not much be-
| low the ordinary rate OF beats.
PETER SHELLENBARGER, Of Hartville, o.,
butchered q fat cow. After the animal had
been killed and hung up, and while engaged
in dressing her, he noticed peculiar odor,
aud began an investigation, On opening the
stomach be found within butcher knife
blade AMI handle about seven inches in
! length. The knife was not only sharp. but
| sharp pointed, and had wounded the coatin gs
Of the stomach about the region where the
| point lay. The animal was in fine condition.
| and with the exception of once or twice in
the last SIX months, when she refused her
food. nothing had been noticed to indica te
| any hing wrong with her. The knife had
| been missing since last September. at which
| Tune, 1t is supposed, it had been fed TO the
cow with potato peelings and other kitchen
offal. 1t is rather curious case.
| A NANTUCKET correspondent of the Boston
| Herald, has been reading the "Rules and
Regulations Governing the Police Force of
| Nantucket" and finds them amusing, par
ticularly Article 8 and Rule 9. Tho former
reads: at shall he the duty OF the police to
! arrest any person found in an intoxicated
| condition in any OF the streets or lanes OF the
| town, and II he or She offers no re istance
| said person may be assisted home; IL that IL
| too far away, said person may bs assisted
| away from the most thr0pged streets and
told TO 90 nome three times, and If such ner-
son refuses 10 go home. he or she shall be
! locked up and treated as provided in Rule g."
| Rule 6is: ANY per'ou found as hereinbeiore
4 DroVidpd. who is noisy niSOruprIV. aLall Ia